Eurogroup Working Group

Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras on Wednesday spoke openly on Bloomberg in favor of a so-called "corona bond," warning that unless joint fiscal action is taken Europe will face a new debt crisis.

The presentation of Eleni Varvitsioti and Viktoria Dendrinou's book "The Last Bluff" (published by Papadopoulos) took place on Monday evening in a packed amphitheater at the Benaki Museum annex on Pireos Street, south of central Athens.

It is evident from a series of public statements that the new government is viewed positively by the representatives of Greece's creditors and European partners as they expect better cooperation and more steadfast reform policies.

Nevertheless, the first positive signals do mean that creditors are prepared to change the basic targets of economic policy.

The Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) of eurozone member-states ended on Thursday without any objections being raised to a plan by the leftist-led government in Greece for suspending pension cuts planned to go into effect in 2019, Kathimerini has learned.

What is largely missing in Greece, in contrast to other bailed out European countries like Ireland and Spain, is a frank discussion on its own contribution to its economic predicament, former Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) president Thomas Weiser told Skai TV in an interview aired on Tuesday night.

A debt relief deal after the current bailout program expires in August will mean fresh commitments from Athens toward its international creditors and not a so-called "clean exit" as the government anticipates, outgoing Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) chief Thomas Wieser told Kathimerini on Sunday.

Greece could receive debt relief but with terms attached when its bailout program is concluded in August, according to the outgoing chief of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), Thomas Wieser.

In a interview to Austrian newspapers Salzburger Nachrichten and Ober Nachrichten the President of the EuroGroup Working Group, Thomas Wieser labeled the IMF’s proposal for a radical reduction of the Greek debt ridiculous. “All Europeans say: That is ridiculous”, he remarked in his interview to the two publications. Mr.

The Euro Working Group is set to confirm whether Greece has executed the second prior actions required to unlock a 1-bln-euro bailout tranche. Members of EU finance ministries of the Eurogroup Working Group will hold a teleconference on Thursday to decide on Greece.

The Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) is expected to convene via teleconference at 20.00 (local time) on Friday to discuss the agreement which is close to being achieved between Greece’s economic team and the representatives of the institutions.